Sustainable Investing

The new vehicle, formed with Japanese manager Samurai Capital, will focus on real estate assets with a social impact without having a lower return target.

They were billed as the next big thing in real estate fundraising and impact investing. Author David Wessel explains what really happened.

Sustainability is now high on investors’ and managers’ agendas, with both having an increased desire to allocate capital to resilient, affordable housing, say Macquarie Asset Management’s Erin Ledger-Beaupre and Dana Gibson.

The ANREV and Aurex Group Asian compensation survey published this week offers a glimpse of the stark difference between male and female compensation levels in private real estate.

Institutional investors are grappling with the question of what to do with existing assets amid greater ESG scrutiny during the pandemic.

S&P Global Ratings claims the fear may be greater than the reality, but there are plenty of examples out there to make investors feel uneasy.

Anyone monitoring sentiment among Asia’s most prominent institutional investors would not have failed to notice an upswing in recent weeks in positive commentary toward making ESG-compliant investments. On Monday, GIC’s CIO for fixed-income, Liew Tzu Mi, underscored the Singapore state investment firm’s intention to prioritize investments that either adhere to, or are subject to plans […]

Net zero commitments are not enough to prove that the industry is making significant progress toward significantly reducing carbon emissions.

Investing to produce social and environmental improvements does not need to come at the expense of financial returns, according to the participants at PERE’s impact investing roundtable.

Capital stays faithful to China real estate despite the pandemic and rising geopolitical tensions.